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Iftach Yacoby

Tel Aviv University

Dr. Iftach Yacoby is at the Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences. Tel Aviv University. During his graduate studies, he studied and developed targeted immunotherapy against Alzheimer’s disease, bacterial infections and Cancer. He was as an EMBO postdoctoral Fellow at MIT to engineer microorganisms’ hydrogenase for high yield production of pure hydrogen fuel from living systems in water. Dr. Yacoby has been researching greener methods of producing hydrogen fuel to meet society’s growing clean energy needs.